Vocabulary

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gemstone: a very solid and colorful mineral a great type of luster
ore: a rock which contains a metal or a useful mineral
smelting: a process when melting an ore to seperate useful metals from the elements
alloy: a solid in which it is made of two or more metals

Outline

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The Uses of Minerals

• Minerals can makeup many objects such as metals, gemstones, and more
  • minerals usually surprise people of what they could make up

Gemstones

• people have created ideas for minerals through the ages such as gemstones
  • gemstones are hard and colorful minerals in which people like to carry around
    • these types of minerals are really rare in many ways, it also it has a shiny luster

Metals

• many minerals are known as metals
  • these metals are known as iron, aluminum, copper, silver, and gold
    • metals can be useful in many ways, such as being streched into wire

Other Useful Minerals

• in the world there are different kinds of metals in minerals that are useful, like metals in foods, medicines, fertilizers, and building materials
  • powder of minerals can also make up something

Ores

• ores are certain types of minerals that also contain metals in the substance
  • these ore are not exactly purified when found like other minerals

Prospecting

• a person who prospects is a person who is working to find an ore deposit
  • prospectors are people who observe the rocks of land if they are minerals or not

Mining

• In the world there are three types of mining
  • the three types of mining is strip mining, open pit mining ,and shaft mining
    • these types of mining have special effects to them, like open pit mining can remove ore deposits in the area
      • strip mining has earth moving equipment scape off soil in order to expose the ore
        • finally, the shaft mining has a network of tunnels that is extended, following the veins of ores

Smelting

• smelting is a process in which metals are removed from ores in order to seperate useful minerals from the metals
  • the way of smelting is doing this process with boiling heat
    • after smelting results to steel in which is an alloy(made of two or more metals)